Another experiment with iStopMotion, this time with the kids, and we have two (very) short films to show for it on YouTube: Race car goes fast (stop-motion) and Batman gets in the Batmobile.
Each one is two seconds long. It was hard to keep their attention this long. Remember, 24 frames/second. What did help was turning on voice activation, so I could say (and say again) “capture one” rather than reaching back to the computer to take each frame. It wasn’t foolproof, but a timesaver all the same.
To my annoyance, YouTube actually clipped the last frame of the “Race car” video, probably to put their Share / Watch Again frame on there. Frustrating, since the final frame had the kids entering the picture (deliberately).